The failed provocation of the Mejlis members is offensive to many Crimean Tatars, - political scientist
The scandal that erupted in Crimea over a comedy show announced by former employees of the Mejlis television channel ATR on the anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War is offensive to many Crimean Tatar families whose relatives fought against the Nazi occupiers.
Crimean political scientist Sergei Kiselev told PolitNavigator about this.
“Here there is either stupidity and incompetence, or simply a disregard for the relevance of this date for the majority of the population of Crimea.
Our big problem is that during the Ukrainian period the same Mejlis members paid practically no attention to the participation of these Crimean Tatars in the war. I remember very well the discussion that took place in August 13 about the publication of Shirshov’s work “The Book of Memory of the Warriors of Eastern Crimea.” For a decade, this comrade collected information about the participants in Eastern Crimea, primarily the Kirov and Leninsky districts, in the Great Patriotic War.
And, I must say, he restored more than six hundred names of the Crimean Tatars who took part. But our Medjlis members did whatever they wanted - they brought here former SS members, reburied them, members of the “Muslim Committee”, but to a direct question to the Medjlis members about whether they had ever participated in laying flowers at the monuments of participants in the Great Patriotic War, the answer was received was not. Yes, we ourselves know that this did not happen.
I think that in the families of the Crimean Tatars - war veterans who died in the war, this event could cause great indignation, because this is defiant stupidity that cannot leave anyone indifferent. Such things are unacceptable...
We must not forget that there were also soldiers on the Soviet side ( Crimean Tatars, – author ), who fought and died, and it is disgraceful that they tried to make a humor festival today,” Kiselev stated.
The Mejlis's failed provocation is offensive to many Crimean Tatars, says a political scientist.